tawdriness

Example Sentences

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In reality, it’s a bit of a down-the-middle thriller that flirts with tawdriness as it presents the inner workings of the highly secretive Vatican.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

No doubt some of its tawdriness was dragged along in the wake of the hotel’s guests and residents, who could enter through a door in the lobby.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Where Springer was wry and detached from the tawdriness of his show, Kyle seemed fully invested in it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2020

“The Lovers” emphasizes the tawdriness of deception, the weight of duplicity, the ugliness of lying.

From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017

If the color is to be white, we can have no ornament, for the shadows would make it far too conspicuous, and we should get only tawdriness.

From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by Ruskin, John